The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the ...

African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were ...

Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...

Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has ordered an end to its military mission in the DRC because its mandate ...

Southern African Development Community heads of state have announced the withdrawal of their soldiers from the conflict in ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

A UNITED Nations (UN) expert has called for urgent support for human rights defenders in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human ...